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What will astronauts wear on the big day when they step foot on the moon as the first humans to do so in more than 50 years?

A trio of scientists were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for their research into black holes, some of the most mysterious objects in the universe that gobble stars like specks of dust.

The phenomenon of hot dust rings--an accumulation of submicrometer-sized particles in the immediate vicinity of stars--was first discovered outside our solar system in 2006. They form so close to stars that they can reac...

As SpaceX launches a new batch of Starlink satellites, the company is quietly deorbiting the original set of satellites less than 18 months after launch. SpaceNews

"How We Got to the Moon" (Random House Children's Books, 2020), out today (Oct. 6) peels back the curtain to expose the true story of NASA's Apollo program and how people from all walks of life worked together to accompl...

Office of Space Commerce Director Kevin O'Connell and former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe join SpaceNews Oct. 13 to discuss what's next in the effort to improve civil space traffic management. SpaceNews

Rekha Sharma's character - Klingon officer Adet'Pa - will appear in the "Star Trek Online's" PC update "House Shattered" on Tuesday (Oct. 6).

While advancing its Artemis program - which includes sending the first woman and next man to the lunar surface in 2024 - NASA wants to know what you would pack for a trip to the Moon.

Tracking and avoiding the growing debris field in low Earth orbit was clearly on the minds of speakers on the first day of the Satellite Innovation 2020 conference. SpaceNews

Impact craters have been called the "poor geologists' drill," since they allow scientists to look beneath to the subsurface of a planet without actually digging down. It's estimated that Mars has over 600,000 craters, so...

Snoopy is over the moon with a new timepiece celebrating a Swiss watchmaker's role in saving NASA's Apollo 13 mission half a century ago. Omega launched its new Speedmaster "Silver Snoopy Award" 50th Anniversary chronogr...

This slideshow celebrates the trailblazing satellites that gave humanity a new perspective on Earth and the solar system.

Mars is at its closest to Earth until 2035 tonight (Oct. 6). Here's how to see it in the night sky!

We check the best online retailers for discounts on a daily basis to find you the perfect offer on Vixen products -- finding your next binoculars or telescope has never been easier

Using data from the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite, astronomers from the Florida Institute of Technology have discovered a quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the galaxy NGC 4945. The finding, reported in a...

SpaceX delivered its 13th batch of Starlink satellites to orbit Tuesday (Oct.6), following a two-week delay due to bad weather.

Image: Meet the people behind the third European Service Module that will power and propel the next astronauts to land on the Moon in decades. The team at Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy pose with the now completed s...

The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists for their work involving one of the cosmos's most mysterious, darkest, secrets -- black holes.

Half the award goes to Roger Penrose, with the restsplit between Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, for work revealing the “darkest secrets of the universe” --

Half the award goes to Roger Penrose; rest being split between Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for work revealing ‘darkest secrets of the universe’ --

Astronomers from The University of Western Australia's node of the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have developed a new way to study star formation in galaxies from the dawn of time to today.

Pioneer 13 dropped a probe through Venus's clouds 42 years ago. A reexamination of that probe's data reveals faint signatures that may turn out to be the earliest signs of life on the inhospitable planet.